The Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Crime Branch probing into the sensational case of sexual assault and murder of five-year-old girl Pari of Jadupur village in Nayagarh district on Monday sought permission from the POCSO Court here for a narcotic analysis test of accused Saroj Sethi.
The hearing for the petition would be held on Tuesday.On the other hand, Sethi’s lawyer has prayed before the court to treat him as a juvenile by submitting the birth certificate and claiming that he was a minor on the day of the incident.
Sethi had sexually assaulted the girl, strangled her to death and tried to have sexual intercourse with the corpse.
He later packed the body in a gunny sack and dumped it at a bush near a pond at the backyard of the girl’s house on July 14 last year, police had said.